Thursday, 15 February 2024

Early 1960s Fashion Review

Pixie haircut: check.
Pink girly-girl dress: check
White bobby socks: check
Black patent leather shoes: check

This is how my mother dressed me
for Sunday School when I was a pre-schooler.

She posed me for the photo too.
So ladylike and demure!


But this is how I dressed myself every day --

Pants: check
Jacket: check
Saddle shoes: check
My brother's cowboy hat: check

Missing from this photo of my ensemble:
my brother's toy holster set
with its silver six-shooter revolvers

"Howdy, pardner!"


And here I am riding the range
on the red ride 'em pony that
my father made for me.

I'll tell you how he made it
in my next post.


50 comments:

  1. And today, how do we dress ourselves?

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  2. Who needs Annie Oakley? But I must admit you also make a cute pixie!

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  3. I agree, you did make a cute pixie :-)

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  4. Well Meowdy there.

    And to think your parents didn't even suspect.

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  5. I wasn't as tomboyish as you, but I remember my mom complaining that I snubbed dolls and 'girlie' things.

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  6. Oh gosh, our mother's though alike!

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  7. OMG Love these!
    I especially love how cool those shoes were when you dressed yourself!!

    XOXO

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  8. Well, you look adorable in all three pictures!

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  9. What sweet photos of your childhood, and to have a father who would make a red pony for you is so precious.

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  10. These old photos made my day. I laughed out loud at your mom's barbie outfit. It's so precious, and probably rare as your preference was so not that.

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  11. oh cod, dee mum sed her mum used to take her and her bestie to git a pixie cut eberry summer cuz they wood always go swimming dee time and her mum did not want to deal wif her snarley and tangled hair screaming when it had to be untangled.

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  12. How utterly adorable! I remember the 1960's fashions for girls all too well.
    I'm guessing that your parents weren't shocked when you came out...
    Cheers, baby dyke!

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  13. @ e -- My mother definitely had her suspicions and was not surprised. My unobservant father, however, was completely clueless so it came as quite a shock to him. But everyone adjusted!

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  14. Lovelys photographs of these joyfulls moments. Sure the time passed a lot. I can see It in the photographs. But you now that those moments of children were great, were good, were satisfactory and blessings for you. This rememberings then are the best. Have a very nice day, and really a very nice complete month.

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  15. Ride ’em, cowgirl! You look so much more comfortable and natural in your own selection. And you sure were adorable. Ah, mothers! Cool red ride ’em pony.

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  16. Hello Debra, You have been hiding these adorable pictures from us--you could have had your own caption contest! Just the other day I was at my friends' for Chinese New Year and there was a girl on television with a short haircut, and I was explaining to their daughter what a pixie was--that was the exact word I used!
    --Jim

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  17. Look at you, a cute little Buckaroo! Did you ever get a real pony?

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  18. Best laught of the week. Thank you.

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  19. What a cutie, with or without six-shooter.

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  20. I grew up being a Backseat Buckaroo! Dad would wrangle us into the car and...yeehaw-ing we would go. Sometimes a plan, sometimes just riding the range until some history or weird attraction revealed itself!! 🤠

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  21. Fun pictures and a walk down memory lane. Our mothers dressed us very similarly; but through the week and or when I could dress myself, I was still in dresses with my saddles. Mom made 99% of my little dresses and I always loved them. Cute little red pony.

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  22. The dresses in the earlier era look fantastic

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  23. Lovely photos of you, but I like the fact that you already had your very own ideas of fashion when young.

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  24. @ Tundra Bunny -- No, I never had a real pony. But I did have a stuffed, blue polka dot pony with blue yarn hair that I called Pedro. My Mom bought it for me at a craft table at a local Community Tea in our town.

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  25. I looked just like that first photo too but I remember wearing white gloves! Who makes kids wear white gloves? LOL!

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  26. @ Kay G -- I had a little pair of white gloves too, along with a tiny cotton handkerchief embroidered with my first initial, both of which were to be carried in a tiny little purse I carried when a wee bit older. I just shake my head now. I remember that the gloves fastened with a tiny pearl button as well.

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  27. It is good to see how a fashion icon started out. Loved seeing these. Thanks for sharing, Debra.

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  28. My little sister was born in the fifties and your church outfit is how our mon dressed her for Easter. But we wore slacks and shorts out to play.

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  29. I'm looking at the first picture and remembering all those things around you. The wire garden fence. The trellis. The white knobs to attach the wire to the house. The good ol' days.

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  30. You were such a pretty child! Thanks for sharing those pictures. They made me think of when I was a child too.

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  31. Love these, I love all old photos

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  32. I remember being dressed like that for church on Sunday, and on Easter it was a new outfit from top to bottom.

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  33. Deb, you were (and still are) so stinking cute in your Dress Up or your Cowgirl garb! I love it. Did your Mom give you grief about the cowboy outfits?

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  34. @ Busy Bee Suz -- No, I don't remember my Mom giving me any grief about my own choice of clothing. At least, not when I was small. As a teenager, she wouldn't let me wear jeans though. Of course, that marked me as an outcast as school but it was just one reason among many, so what the hell. I didn't fight her on the jeans issue because I had other things I needed to mount an active resistance to and my Mom was my ally on those issues.

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  35. So cute! I, too, would rather be the cowboy instead of the primp girl. I wasn't into dresses either.

    Have a lovely day.

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  36. Love that cheeky smirk in the 2nd picture - like you are plotting some mischief.

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  37. sooo sweet !!!!!!

    makes me laugh specially your effort she put in you to look lady like lol

    i can imagine so well in next dressing instead of your cute brother :)
    yes it some effort for some ladies to look like ladies include me lol

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  38. "I gotta be me. I gotta be free."

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  39. You sure were a cute little girl all dressed up. The next two pictures are definitely more "YOU".

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  40. Cute pics... I had MaryJane's as well that I wore to church. The rest of the time I was in the saddle shoes. I wore them for years. Even with jeans into my 40s... I kept them a lot longer in case there was a chance to ride a horse. They were the only shoes I owned that were good for horseback riding. My boots were long gone.

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  41. Great style. You are either born with it or you are not.

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